Coursera blog

MARCH 8, 2024

OLAY will award $2 million worth of scholarships for learners interested in cosmetic sciences By Marni Baker Stein, Chief Content Officer , Coursera Today, OLAY is launching a new Specialization, Introduction to Cosmetic Science and Ingredients , on Coursera. Our partnership with OLAY comes at an important time for careers in STEM.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 26, 2024

Today on the Academic Minute: Laurence Hurst, professor of evolutionary genetics at the University of Bath, explores the differences between people who trust in science and those who do not.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

It is a place that brings together a diversity of people to explore ideas, to learn to think and to go out and contribute to the world for good,” said Sniegowski, a distinguished biologist and the Stephen A. Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. He will take the helm Aug.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2024

Xavier University of Louisiana, an historically Black university (or HBCU) in New Orleans and top graduator of Black students who pursue medical degrees and doctorates in the health sciences, is partnering with Ochsner Health, the area’s leading medical training center, to open Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine (XOCOM). Reynold Verret. “If

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Deans for Impact

AUGUST 15, 2022

Deans for Impact · Fostering equity through cognitive science (LbSD podcast, episode two). Subscribe: Learning by Scientific Design is a podcast series by Deans for Impact that explores how an understanding of cognitive science, or the science of how students learn, can lead to more rigorous, equitable and inclusive teaching.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

People spend an average of six years and eight months of their life on social media. All too often people use social media, such as Tik Tok, to get noticed and build up a following. A Challenge for Educators. Here is a bold statement. The world is going to hell in a handbasket.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor of Political Science; Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island Tenured: No Age: 38 Education: B.A., political science, Binghamton University Career mentors: Dr. David L. I got to see how people treated blue collar workers,” he says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 3, 2022

For close to a year, I have been strategizing and working with Randy Raymond, a software engineer at Google, to make access to computer science education the new “Space Race” and create models that schools can scale to deliver instruction to students. We want to create a parallel system of development for computer science and other fields.

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University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Degrees and subsequent jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have long been praised as lucrative and safe pathways for students looking to enroll at a college or university. However, there is one subset of this group that stands out in popularity and workforce prowess: computer and data science.

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HEPI

JANUARY 14, 2024

What is the connection between political science and project management? Humanities and social sciences degrees have come under attack for their lack of utility, seemingly not useful in a world of big data and where artificial intelligence could soon penetrate every part of our daily lives. And how did I end up in fintech?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor of Political Science; Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island Tenured: No Age: 38 Education: B.A., political science, Binghamton University Career mentors: Dr. David L. I got to see how people treated blue collar workers,” he says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

What confirmed that his mentors — Latino college advisors, speaking from the pain of personal experience — had given him some bad advice were the happenings he witnessed in 2010 at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) conference. In a professional setting, tell no one that you’re queer.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Only then will we be able to safeguard our interests in the joint generation of knowledge, maintain access to Chinese institutions as important players in the international science system and make well-founded assessments in order to avoid risks,” said Mukherjee. The DAAD also advises institutions to focus on other regions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

political science, University of California at Irvine; B.A., The professor first pursued collegiate study and research pertaining to poor people of color and queer and trans people — persons who were familiar to Ramos in appearance and life experience. It felt good to see other people who looked and felt like me,” recalls Ramos.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 6, 2024

challenges students to identify and write down their broad goals and ideals for college: I will … attend all my classes, graduate with honors, engage with people from different backgrounds, strengthen my combined interests in soccer, violin, and physics, become fluent in French, and so on. What do I want?’

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Bridging the gap between community colleges and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) professions, Stanford University’s student-run Community College Outreach Program (CCOP) is launching research internships and summer boot camps for aspiring students. They need support from other people,” says Agajanian.

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Coursera blog

MARCH 22, 2023

By Coursera Online learning platform, Coursera, is proud to announce a new Master of Science (MSc) in Data Science (Statistics) from the University of Leeds, one of the largest higher education institutions in the UK and recognised among the leading 100 universities worldwide.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

Moore III The webinar, “Federal Funding and HBCUs,” held on Wednesday, centered on the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) efforts to support STEM research and education at HBCUs. Recent data projects that nearly four million additional people will be needed in 2030 for the science and engineering workforce to be representative of the U.S.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 17, 2023

The University of Minnesota (UMN) Medical School Duluth Campus will increase access to biomedical science careers for Native American students in the region with the new Gateways to Medicine and Research Master of Science degree program. There needs to be more representation of Native Americans in clinics and in academic medicine.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Future data-related jobs will lie at the intersection of data-rich domains, including economics, science, geography and psychology, working in concert with statistics, computation and business. We have also developed programs to recruit and retain students interested in science. We live in a world increasingly reliant upon data.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Lucette Roovers, director of global engagement at Breda University of Applied Sciences , told The PIE the “stay rate” of international students has been a focal point of the ongoing international student debate in the Netherlands. Previously, only around 20% of international students did so.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2024

I am overwhelmed with gratitude at having made it to MIT, a place that values innovation, science, and excellence, but also with a sense of responsibility,” Masic says. “I I am overwhelmed with gratitude at having made it to MIT, a place that values innovation, science, and excellence, but also with a sense of responsibility,” Masic says.

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HEPI

MARCH 20, 2024

We invited further comments on the proposal to expand the People, Culture and Environment (PCE) element of the exercise. There will also be a survey gathering input from across the sector on the development of people, culture and environment indicators. We have recently published our revised timetable.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 5, 2024

Victoria McCall The webinar gave a platform to Victoria McCall, director of eLearning at The Center for Black Educator Development, to provide ample advice and instruction on how educators can better forge strong and positive relationships with the people they serve.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 23, 2024

This puts the major below the likes of science, social science, engineering, business, health sciences, and those undecided. Student interest in working in education continues a generally downward trend across eight states in the U.S. South, the worst still being Louisiana with 3.7% in 2022 compared to 6.9% the year before.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

She is an assistant professor of educational administration in the College of Education and Human Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where her work is concentrated on campus climates and the role of student affairs in student experiences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

In fact, this rate for English majors puts it below the unemployment rate for computer and information services majors, 2.8%, though still higher compared to a number of other majors – business, engineering, philosophy, physical science, and history.

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HEPI

APRIL 30, 2024

AI and ethics: The university challenge Universities navigate the complexities of internal operations, teaching and learning, the advancement of innovation and science, and outreach and engagement with society. But in the midst of an artificial intelligence gold rush, can universities ensure everyone plays fair?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Fisheries, Animal, and Veterinary Sciences, University of Rhode Island Tenured: No Age: 36 Education: B.A., Find your people, learn how to support them, and let them support you when you need it too.” Human interaction is at the center of Dr. Melva Treviño Peña’s work.

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The PIE News

MARCH 5, 2024

The awards recognised alumni across four broad categories – Science and Sustainability, Business and Innovation, Culture and Creativity and Social Action – and showcased the successes alumni have had in their respective fields. We can change people’s lives for a better and build a brighter future for everyone,” said Goh.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 31, 2023

LGBTQ+ civil rights organization The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) will expand its work to combat HIV and its surrounding societal effects using a $5 million grant from biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences, Inc.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2024

Tressie McMillan Cottom wants her work to meet people where they are, and to do so, she uses many platforms and intersects multiple disciplines. in sociology in 2015 from Emory University’s Laney Graduate School and her Bachelor of Arts degree in English and political science from North Carolina Central University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

Taylor served as vice president for strategic initiatives and research at Fielding, where he was also the principal investigator and director for an NSF-funded grant to advance women and people of color in the STEM fields into leadership positions at the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities and at Tribal Colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

Diversity is America's unique advantage in science and technology," said National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan. million members of underrepresented minority groups (24%), and 1 million people with disabilities (3%). NCSES is part of the NSF. population, the report found.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The University of Washington (UW) and Google have announced a $400,000 gift from the tech giant that will go towards efforts to diversify the field of K-12 computer science education. Computer science is one of America’s most critical fields. Ko Th e lack of diversity is mirrored in the computer science teaching force.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

Oliver's legacy will continue to inspire our center as we expand access to public service as a profession and promote research and public policy that confronts systemic inequalities,” said Dr. Oliver Center for Politics and Race in America with Dr. Jacqueline Mattis, the university’s dean of the School of Arts and Sciences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2024

“Since the second decade of the nineteenth century, black-owned book publishing has existed in the United States, the books released by these publishing enterprises have vindicated blacks, documented black culture and history, and addressed the special concerns of black people in ways which white book publishers have not. Cornish and John B.

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